Wisco falls 6-5 with Darrien Miller, Ben Metzinger and Je’Von Ward all homering.
On the pitching side Sam Gardner and Shane Smith combined for five scoreless relief innings with 5 K | 2 H | 1 BB between them.
Tanner Shears retired the first two batters of the ninth via pop out and K before going homer, walk, walk, single for the Dayton walk off.
I don’t think it’s an either or at all. He started 91 of 99 games in his first MLB season, then got two days off.
Unless an everyday OF is acquired at the deadline, I’d imagine Wiemer still starts around five games a week with occasional days off against RH.
Yeah, tiny samples obviously but Wiemer has a 34 wRC+ since the ASB compared to a 90 wRC+ for Perkins.
Don’t think a strict platoon is in order or in store just yet, moreso a case of playing the “hotter” bat who has been better vs RHP so far this year in hopes of eke-ing out an extra run against the best team in MLB.
Wiemer can always come on for a big PA vs a lefty if the situation arises later in the game.
Here is a batter by batter account of Biloxi’s ten run top of the ninth.
Sparks K, Kahle BB, Black HR, Chourio 1B, Collins 1B, Clarke 2B, Warren BB, Rodriguez ROE, Murray K, Sparks BB, Kahle 2B, Black 1B, Chourio BB, Collins single, Valerio fly out.
Doesn’t include tonight’s games and is super small sample, but numbers since July 14…
Chourio (34 PA)
500/529/844 (260 wRC+)
Black (34 PA)
429/529/857 (257 wRC+)
Quero (28 PA)
318/464/455 (156 wRC+)
Checking his game log it looks like they normally give him one day off a week, likely to make sure everybody gets playing time. He is listed with the other bench players in the box.
Or he could covertly be on a flight.
Logan Henderson dealt to the tune of 6 IP | 1 R | 2 H | 2 BB | 6 K while Jace Avina, Jose Sibrian and Kay-Lan Nicasia have all homered as Carolina leads 8-1 bottom of seven.
Thanks for the link, will definitely check it out. Looks like you went into quite a bit more depth than I did.
I had originally intended to include every player that made MLB, but after a couple teams there were so many negative or marginal guys that I decided to draw the line at one WAR to streamline things a bit.
Those early 2000 Brewers drafts were certainly phenomenal, the cult of Jack Z was strong. Sometimes it seems like Brewers fans treat that run as a baseline for what every draft “should” be even though we were picking Top 7 four years in a row then.
For this snapshot of time I’d probably have STL, LAD, CLE in tier 1A with TOR and TBR in tier 1B. But even then, juggernaut LAD got the entirety of their value from the 2016 draft.
After that MIL is one of eleven teams with at least 19 WAR. If you adjust for players traded, etc they’re about #8 overall.
Granted, most of that is Burnes, but if you chop off the most recent three drafts since they’ve produced a negligible amount of one WAR players to this point, and instead add the 2013-15 drafts they’d have Woodruff, Grisham and Williams among the hits.
But then that was a different scouting director and GM so it’s of limited utility as well with regards to looking forward.
But at the same time, the current FO and staff developed Woodruff/Williams & dealt Grisham for Urias/Lauer so they probably deserve some credit too.
Jesus Chirinos stays hot doubling home Lara (ROE) and Adams (BB) for two more runs bottom of five.
Chase Costello has gone two scoreless in relief with two each hits and strikeouts.
And they’ve got more bottom of six. Reidy Mercado single followed by Blayberg Diaz and Alexander Perez HBPs loaded the bases for a Tayden Hall RBI groundout.
And now Guilarte has singled home Blayberg and Perez.
Now 7-1 MudCats still bottom 6th.
It’s non stop runs in affiliate land.
Nashville goes Urias walk, Frelick ROE, Toro single, Hiura walk, Bolt sac fly, Henry pop out, Devanney walk, Dorrian GRAND SLAM, Monte double and now an Urias bomb.
8-0, still bottom first.
Carolina running wild tonight.
Daniel Guilarte walked, then went to third on a Luis Lara single.
Double steal for a run, then Lara stole third for good measure.
Now up 2-0 top of fourth.
Biloxi scored a run top of one with Jackson Chourio singling home Tyler Black after a lead off triple.
Jackson subsequently stole second, and advanced to third of a Jeferson Quero fly out to RF, but alas was stranded.
Carolina up 1-0 heading into bottom of three with a Jace Avina knocking in Luke Adams after he singled then stole second.
Will Rudy with two each hits, walks and strikeouts through three frames.
As Freddy’s leaned on the fastball less his batted ball profile has shifted from 52% fly balls vs 30.5% ground balls as a rookie to 40.8% fly balls vs 39.2% ground balls this year.
Another indicator his fastball may have lost some giddy up is his infield fly ball rate is down to 8.7% this year after sitting at 15.8% from 2019-22.
He had a defined role until he stopped hitting.
From his call up on 6/28/19 through the end of the season he had the 3rd most PA on the team and posted a 143 wRC+. Sure, the 30.1% K rate and .412 BABIP were red flags as to the sustainability of that production, but he did plenty to earn an everyday role.
In 2020 Keston had the 2nd most PA on the team, only one fewer than Yelich. But the Ks ballooned to 34.6% and the BABIP cratered to .273 so the wRC+ was an underwhelming 88. But yeah, it was the pandemic. Write it off and start anew.
For the first month of 2021 Hiura had the 4th most PA on the team. But his 36.0 K rate and .239 BABIP and 43 wRC+ weren't cutting it so he got demoted. Called back up, he got the 7th most PA from 5/24 until 6/6, but his 48.5 K rate and .154 BABIP and -36 wRC+ weren't going to keep him up and getting regular PAs so he got demoted again.
It's been up and down ever since with the volatility of Keston's batting line combined with his near zero defensive value preventing him from having a defined role.